Hi manurere, welcome back.
Thank you. I am sad that your furry friend has passed on, a special friend and memories to cherish forever.
Would love to see you post pic of Mona. 🙂 I know Havelock as have lived in Blenheim years ago. From memory I think Mona did say a bit about a boat her dad had and its name…funny feeling it was her name too…may be not.

Well here is the information on Mona that I have found. She was a Facebook contact of one of our members, which is how I found her surname. I had read on Gups that she was a Marlborough girl, so I searched the Marlborough District Council cemetery records and found her in the Havelock cemetery. It may be that her family in Auckland kept her ashes for a year before she was finally sent or taken to Havelock to be with her parents. The photo was copied from the cemetery records, and I have copied the record here also. I don’t know anything about her sister Norma shown on the gravestone, she could still be around.

All the above is in the public domain, but I do hope I am not upsetting anybody by posting this. The gravestone is covered in lichen, I might ask my son to spray it with something to clean it up a bit when he next goes that way.